2026-06-24
The Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act 85–5 on Monday; the House takes up the amended package today, and President Trump is expected to sign it within the week. The bill’s 45-plus provisions cover a wide …
Economists, sociologists, demographers, and other researchers need accurate, ideally individual-level data to understand what’s going on in the world. At the same time, most people don’t want information like their addre…
There are a growing number of AI tools for various components of the scientific process, but there are rarely careful, public evaluations of how they perform and compare. Last week Refine, an AI-powered review tool for e…
(... probably ). Semianalysis is out with a comprehensive comparative analysis of the costs and uncertainties around space-based datacenters, arguing that while technical, operational, and cost barriers mean that space-b…
This week, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new initiative called ‘Operation Trial 1 Blazer’ that aims to bring back early-stage clinical research, which has increasingly been outsourced t…
I’ve been listening to the wonderful new podcast Everyday Abundance (no affiliation!) by Virginia Postrel and Charles Mann, based on Dylan’s recommendation two weeks ago. Each episode looks at the history of some aspect …